The Yeast Mobile Activity
The Yeast Mobile Kit allows students to easily create inventive alternative
fueled vehicles. Students can transfer power from an alternative fuel through
the use of hydraulics, linkages, gears, and pulleys (the design possibilities
are endless).
Engineering Challenges
- Design the Yeast Mobile in CAD
- Create a Yeast Mobile that will go the longest distance
- Create a Yeast Mobile to drag race other Yeast Mobiles
- Create a Yeast Mobile to pull an object the greatest distance
- Create a Yeast Mobile that will stop as close to a given distance (marker)
as possible
- Create a Yeast Mobile with a prototype shell (cut, printed, glued
posterboard)
Activity Documents
Click to download the pdf document (Acrobat Reader 5 or newer is required):
Yeast
Mobile Assembly Instructions
Easy
Engineering Guide
Innovation Components
Innovation components allow for greater alternative and innovative designs.
They are not required, but are suggested to bring more engineering and
innovation to the yeast mobile activity. Only a few innovation components are
usually needed to create alternative designs, so your supply of innovation
components can be used for many activities. Here are some recommendations:
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